'Mall Cop' Director Steve Carr to Helm 'Short Circuit' Remake

Variety reports that writer Dan Milano ('Robot Chicken') has also been enlisted by Dimension Films to modernize the film, which starred Ally Sheedy as a woman who stumbles on a military robot, Johnny 5, who flies the the military coop after he's struck by lightning, becomes self-aware, gains the ability to feel emotions and becomes partial to saying, "Johnny 5 is alive!" The original also starred Steve Guttenberg as the benevolent creator who goes in search of the AWOL Johnny 5.